No, it does not. Especially in large companies where the people you need to communicate with are often impossible to be on the same floor anyway.

I work and communicate with teams in different offices, in different countries, and in different timezones. Being in office or not makes no difference since we have to do zoom calls or messages anyway.

Everyone working at home is actually more effective since there is often less background noise in zoom calls and everyone often attends on time. People in office are often late to the zoom calls because they have to go to meeting rooms or quiet rooms before joining, or everyone just talk over each other in the open office.

The only people who thinks communication is happening in the office are middle managers who see everybody talking in the busy office, what they did not know is everyone are on different zoom calls and are mentally shutting out other people talking in the same office.

Exactly. If no one noticed, who cares?

Oh! Microsoft actually layoff people straight and clean, rather than the roundabout evil underhanded way that Google did.

Who would have thought?

Hahaha, somehow, this wasn't even a consideration when outsourcing jobs to India. But it became very important when it comes to American workers, including those who originally came from India.

Umm... does that mean Indians in India have great work ethics, but somehow lost it all after coming to America? Or was work ethic not a real reason at all and just an excuse to force American workers to suffer so they will quit on their own?

The point is they *changed* the rule, and for no apparent reason except to make their employees miserable.

Yeah, we all know Google is evil already.

Trump tried that last time, the result was a huge increase in US imports from countries like Mexico and Vietnam, with a corresponding increase in Chinese exports to those same countries.

Even Trump figured out what was happening, so he decided to raise tariffs for everyone to close off that loophole.

Why? This is America, things happen because someone is going to profit from it, that's why.

Could there be any other reason?

Only time will tell if what they salvaged is worth saving.

I would bet this is a waste of money. It would be better to just buy the IP of the games and develop them entirely within China.

In the past two years, you can tell if a game was developed in Asia just by looking at the main character of the game.

hence less money available for other ventures that would have hired programmers.

That's the nature of bubbles, it attracts more money than it merits, leaving less for other activities.

When AI cannot deliver the astronomical returns the current valuation suggests, the music ends and the bubble bursts, just like in housing bubble in 2008 and the dotcom bubble before it.

So, Americans got what they wanted, you cannot buy so-called "heavily subsidized" Chinese EVs like BYD, and you guys also do not want Elon's Teslas.

From now on, GE, Ford and their likes could pretend EVs never happened and continue to sell gas-guzzling ICE vehicles, keeping America as an island of ICE in the sea of EVs around the world.

Right at the time when BYD announced 1000kW charging giving 400km range in 5 mins, on par with filling a gas tank. The switch to EV is inevitable and Americans chose to live in the past. Enjoy your stay.

If the CEO of a company found undesirable behaviour among the managers, the most likely reason is the CEO himself/herself behaved that way on his way up the management chain.

Cloudflare is too lenient. They should provide an option for customers to feed unauthorised AI crawlers false data to poison them.

This seems more like Apple management has no direction of where to go, and is just trying something to see what sticks.

Since iPhone 3G, the basic interface of the iPhone had been basically consistent, and that means grandma can do FaceTime with her grandkids without much trouble. Nearly zero support effort is a great incentive for the breadwinner of the family to choose iPhones for family members over other options.

Ok, and now Apple is going to drastically change the iPhone interface? Maybe it is time to take a look at other phones, that's the signal Apple is sending to their customers.

Hate Jobs however much you may, at least Jobs had a direction when he led Apple. Once a follower was put in the leading position in Apple, it is only a matter of time before what Jobs put in the pipeline exhausted and Apple begins to drift aimlessly. And that's exactly what we saw happening in the last 4-5 years.

Unfortunately, that's exactly how some C-level managers "manage" companies, by becoming exactly like their competitors, including copying their mistakes.

For some managers, that actually means micromanaging the staff.

Yes, those managers HATES it when everyone is working remotely, they cannot micromanage the way they could when everybody were nearby.